Re: [PATCH v14 0/8] arm64: ARMv8.5-A: MTE: Add async mode support

[Andrey Konovalov]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 5:14 PM Vincenzo Frascino
<vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patchset implements the asynchronous mode support for ARMv8.5-A
> Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), which is a debugging feature that allows
> to detect with the help of the architecture the C and C++ programmatic
> memory errors like buffer overflow, use-after-free, use-after-return, etc.
>
> MTE is built on top of the AArch64 v8.0 virtual address tagging TBI
> (Top Byte Ignore) feature and allows a task to set a 4 bit tag on any
> subset of its address space that is multiple of a 16 bytes granule. MTE
> is based on a lock-key mechanism where the lock is the tag associated to
> the physical memory and the key is the tag associated to the virtual
> address.
> When MTE is enabled and tags are set for ranges of address space of a task,
> the PE will compare the tag related to the physical memory with the tag
> related to the virtual address (tag check operation). Access to the memory
> is granted only if the two tags match. In case of mismatch the PE will raise
> an exception.
>
> The exception can be handled synchronously or asynchronously. When the
> asynchronous mode is enabled:
>   - Upon fault the PE updates the TFSR_EL1 register.
>   - The kernel detects the change during one of the following:
>     - Context switching
>     - Return to user/EL0
>     - Kernel entry from EL1
>     - Kernel exit to EL1
>   - If the register has been updated by the PE the kernel clears it and
>     reports the error.
>
> The series is based on linux-next/akpm.
>
> To simplify the testing a tree with the new patches on top has been made
> available at [1].
>
> [1] https://git.gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-vf.git mte/v12.async.akpm

Hi Vincenzo,

As previously discussed, here's the tree with tests support added to
this series:

https://github.com/xairy/linux/tree/vf-v12.async.akpm-tests

Please take a look at the last two patches. Feel free to include them
into v15 if they look good.

Thanks!